Monday, May 31, 2010

I said it years ago: The legacy media's fawning adulation of The Won will be the end of the First Amendment. Nobody but the most committed Democrat believes anything out of the legacy media, so nobody buys its product, so The Won will step in with government subsidies, which come with strings attached. Namely, nothing but adulation. No more criticism of The Thin-skinned One. And they'll go for it: Natural inclination towards cowardice, love for the boot on the neck, and a paycheck into the bargain. What's not to like?

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

We can make it, if we continue building a safer border and if we transform it in a border that does not divide our peoples, in a land of opportunities and progress. We can make it, if we develop a comprehensive, fair and long term solution to the challenges that migration currently poses. I know that we share the interest in promoting dignified, legal and orderly living conditions to all migrant workers. Many of them, despite their significant contribution to the economy and to the society of the United States, still live in the shadows and, occasionally, as in Arizona, they even face discrimination.

Here in Atlanta we have a high-profile illegal immigrant story playing out.

I heard the Mexican Consul on the radio this morning. In broken English, and with a thick accent, he remarked that it's a pity the young lady involved is having her education interrupted. Nothing about her being an illegal alien. Just sad her education's being interrupted. Oh, and God forbid Mexico send a Consul who can actually speak the local language. Of course, it may well be that in Mexican minds, the Republica del Norte extends to Georgia.

Kennesaw State University, which the illegal immigrant was paying in-state tuition rates to attend, will now be charging her out-of-state rates. Ya think?!?!?!!!!

Our immigration folks don't want to deport her because she's not a "criminal alien", despite, you know, breaking US law to be here, and then breaking another law by giving a false address to police after being stopped for a traffic violation.

And, of course, the usual collection of hysterics has gathered in order to help keep this illegal alien in the country.

This is a real tear-jerker of a story, but the fact is that this young woman was brought to the US as an illegal alien at age 10 and has been sponging off the US taxpayer ever since, up to getting a university education at a well-regarded institution. If any blame attached to anyone, it's to whoever brought her here. I want the US-Mexican border sealed, so we have fewer and fewer of these sorts of stories.

UPDATE: Despite all his huffing and puffing about Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law, the Attorney General of the United States admits he hasn't actually read the law. The guy maligned a state law as raising profound constitutional questions, implied that the lawmakers who drafted it acted with racist intent, and directed a Justice Department review, without having actually read the law.

Last month alone, just in one patrol region, we had sixty-four pursuits. That means people who were driving a vehicle, failed to yield, took off like a bat out of hell, running red lights, creating traffic wrecks, numerous people were killed in these wrecks over the last several months, and who are these people? Not one of them was a U.S. citizen.

But to many Mexican-American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.

"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."

A sign of the times, I suppose. Representatives of The Religion of Pieces get to murder and destroy, so other representatives of The Religion of Pieces can build a mosque on a foundation of murder and destruction.

I think America has become utterly decadent, and is heading towards cultural suicide.

Do you notice that, four days on, there is still no mention in the legacy media that the Times Square bomber is a MUSLIM. A bloodthirsty, America-hating, mass-murdering-wannabe MUSLIM.

What a complete laughing stock the wholly-owned propaganda arm of the Democrat party has become.

UPDATE: A perky talking head mentioned this morning that the Times Square bomber-wannabe acted as he did from a belief that "Islam was under attack." Still no mention of him being a MUSLIM, though, on reflection, it occurs to me that any number of left-wing atheist Democrat moonbats feel the same way.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Oddly enough, no newspaper is willing to acknowledge he's a member of the Religion of Pieces. They're just saying that he's from Pakistan, is a naturalized American citizen, and just came back from a five month sojourn in the land of his birth.

Oh, and tried to blow up Times Square.

Let me tell you: If he was a Christian, or a Tea Party Patriot, we'd never hear the end of it. Muslim? Crickets chirping.

The legacy media is so caught up in political correctness, and "The Narrative" that it's actually unable to report the actual news.

Monday, May 03, 2010

Some good sense about offshore drilling, from New Hampshire's Manchester Union-Leader.

Opening paragraph:

If a Republican were President, the Democrats would have leaped like a pack of hungry jackals at the chance to exploit the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill for political gain. We can just hear the outraged demands that the President reverse his decision to expand offshore drilling because this one leak proves that no drilling so close to shore is safe.

The bottom line:

Despite this awful leak, offshore drilling is statistically extremely safe. The Energy Information Administration maintains that offshore drilling has a stellar safety record, spilling only a fraction of one percent of all extracted oil since 1975.